Label.



Y W. P. MAUDONALD.

LABEL. A APPLICATION FILED 00T.8, 190B.

1,01 3,299. Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

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Unirnn ysra'riis PATENT OFFICE WILSON P. MACDONALD, 0F TORONTO, ONTARIO,CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE G. FOX

COMPANY, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

LABEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 8, 1908.

Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

Serial No. 456,690.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILSON P. MACDON- ALD, a citizen of the Dominion ofCanada, residing at Toronto, in the county of York and Province ofOntario, Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Labels, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to labels and particularly to labels to be appliedto bakers products.

It is the object of my invention to provide an inexpensive label of verysimple construction which can be quickly applied to a pie or the like toindicate its kind, price, maker, etc., without injury or any detrimentto the structure or contents of the pie, and without liability of thelabel being displaced through handling the pie notwithstanding that itis not secured 1n the ordinary way by gum or the like. Heretofore it hasbeen the custom to secure a label in the form of a band of papercompletely around a pie which label bore the desired inscription, butsuch labels were frequently displaced or broken in handling. Y

My invention obviates the above objections and it consists of a labelcomprising two cards pinned together by a spike that is adapted to bedriven into a pie to fasten the label in place, said spike beingpreferably made of wood so as to not aifect or be affected by thefilling of the pie. Of the two cards the rear one has on its face aseries of inscriptions such as the names of several different kinds ofpies, while the front card is cut away in part so as to expose only oneof the inscriptions and blanket or cover from view all of the otherinscriptions on the rear card. This permits of assembling the parts soas to produce, for example, a label indicating by its exposedinscription any one of the several different,

kinds of pies, or of adjusting the two cards rotatively to change theexposed name. The shank of the spike is made irregular or angular incross-section so that the two cards are locked thereby againstdisplacement rotatively.

Other features of my invention are hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings z-Figure l is a plan view of a labelembodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig.3 is a plan view of the front or index card hereinafter referred to;Fig. 4 is a plan view of the rear inscription bearing card hereinafterreferred to.; Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of a modified form ofrear card; and Fig. 6 is a plan view of a modified form of index card.

My new label comprises two cards A and B made from stiff pasteboard orthe like and assembled with the card A in front of the card B. These twocards A and By are impaled on a wooden spike C by forcing the latterthrough both as shown in Fig. 2. The card A is cut away as at a so as toeX- pose any one of a circular series of words a inscribed on card Bconcentric with spike (j, and to cover the other words. Thus byadjusting the two cards rotatively either before or after they areimpaled on the spike C the label may be made appropriate to a pie of anykind included in the series of words a.

The spike C employed inconnection with the two cards A and B consists ofa head c and a shank c', the latter tapering from head c tosubstantially a point and being made triangular in cross-section so thatwhen forced through the cards A and B the latter will be locked againstrotative displacement. The dotted lines at the middle of the cards shownin Figs. 3 and 4 show the shape of the holes produced in said cards whenthe latter are impaled on spike C. The holes thus produced in cards Aand B are both triangular and, as will now be clear, the card B may bedrawn partly off from spike C and rotatively adjusted with relation tocard A so as to expose any one of the words on the card B. Thus a labelmay be transferred from one pie to another, the adjustment justdescribed providing for changing the exposed inscription as may benecessary.

Another feature of my invention consists in providing two cards A and Bto be substituted for the cards A and B, which differ from the latter inthat the card A is made with a central triangular perforation a2 toreceive the shank c of the spike C, while the card B is made with acentral star shaped perforation b2 each point of which is pointed towardone of thewords of the series a. By this construction the card B may bewithdrawn from spike C and rotatively adjusted so as to expose any oneof the six words on the card B without change in the shape of thecentral perforation of the latter, the star points serving as a sureguide to position.

I claim:

l. A label comprising a rear card bearin a series of inscriptions andmade from sti sheet material so as to hold its shape unassisted; anindex card in front of the rear card formed so as to partially exposethe series of inscriptions, and a rigid attaching spike adapted to bedriven into a pie or the like, the two cards having registering per`forations which are angular in shape and the Spike being made with ashank angular in cross section and removably mounted in the perforationsso as to separably connect the two cards and lock them against relativerotative displacement.

2. A label comprising a rear card bearing a series of inscriptions andmade with a star shaped aperture; an index card'in front of the rearcard cut away in part to expose one of said inscriptions and cover therest, and a rigid attaching spike adapted to be driven into a pie or thelike, said spike being made triangular in cross-section and extendingthrough the index card and the aperture of the rear card so as to lockthe Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, byaddressing Jthe Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

